SmartLinx IQ ® enables healthcare organizations to unlock the power of underutilized medical device data for clinical and operational analytics

ANDOVER, Mass. /PRNewswire/ (HIMSS Booth #455) - CapsuleTech, Inc., the leading global provider of medical device integration solutions, today announced the introduction of SmartLinx IQ®, a unique and powerful analytics engine for its SmartLinx Medical Device Information System™ (MDIS). SmartLinx IQ provides valuable insight into a healthcare organization's medical device infrastructure including, clinical workflow, patient data and medical device utilization. This "first of its kind" product will debut at the Healthcare information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) 2015 Annual Meeting in Chicago, April 12-16.

"Healthcare organizations have made tremendous investments in their medical devices in order to properly monitor and diagnose patients, and deliver targeted therapies. But what they may not realize is that more than 90 percent of the data generated by these devices goes unused.
Because SmartLinx acquires all this data in near real time, including relevant patient and user context, we are uniquely positioned to meet data access challenges that other systems cannot," said Kevin Phillips, Capsule Vice President of Marketing and Product Management. "SmartLinx IQ unlocks this 'trapped' data to provide a window into a wealth of information on patients and their treatment, and the devices themselves. As a result, clinicians, clinical engineers and system administrators will gain an entirely new level of operational insight that will allow them to optimize the delivery of care and the performance of their medical device infrastructure."

"SmartLinx IQ can apply analytics to the vast array and volume of medical device data collected by our system on each patient and each device, each hour of every day to provide any number of user-defined views," added Phillips. For example, nurse managers in medical surgical units will be able to view a dashboard that quickly highlights their patients' vital signs and if an early warning score was taken, what the last score was. In support of operational needs, SmartLinx IQ can apply utilization and operational information on the medical devices to assist in their procurement, management and maintenance at the point-of-care.

General product availability is planned for the second quarter 2015. For more information, visit Capsule at HIMSS15 booth #455, or visit the Capsule website.

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